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Remarks in Tacoma, Washington

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Apr 22, 1910

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

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Apr 22, 1910

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.

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Mar 1, 1909

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested... do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Apache National Forest.

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Mar 1, 1909

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, 'An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,' do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of lands, in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, shown as the Zuni National Forest on the two parts of the said diagram.

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